Please refer to Chronic Inflammation notes, page 4. The Non-visible Passages:
Granulomatous Inflammation
Granulomatous inflammation is a distinctive pattern of chronic inflammation reaction characterised by focal accumulation of activated macrophages, which often develop an epithelial line (epitheliod) appearance.
What is granuloma?
Granuloma is a focus of chronic inflammation consisting of a microscopic aggregation of macrophages that are transformed into epithelium like cell, surrounded by a collar of mononuclear leukocyte, principally lymphocyte and occasionally plasma cell (morphology in H & E stain)
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